This is another one of my blog-post series, this time taking a dive into generation 2 VMs, a new feature in Hyper-V in Windows 8.1 that I’ve been working on as Program Manager for throughout the release. In the end, it turned into a small novel...

This one was actually pretty simple to work out, but it did have me flummoxed to start with. Here’s the scenario, I wanted to get an email when an event log entry was triggered. But, I also wanted the contents of the event log entry. I’ve been meaning...

Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 After the many emails I’ve had about this, it seemed...

I was struggling with this error message today - everything I had found on the Internet suggested it related to security. Well, it does, of sorts, and a careful look at the configuration of your SMTP server without mis-interpreting a dialog box.
If...

Update 19th Nov - v0.3 now released!
It has been a little quiet on the blog front, but sometimes, at least in this case, I hope I've come up with something worth waiting for. Announcing "HVRemote"...., a tool to "automagically" configure Hyper-V Remote...

If you followed yesterdays post explaining the basics of networking in Hyper-V, you may be wondering what the different types of virtual networks are, when you should use them, and how they look in terms of traffic flow. When you open Virtual Network...

In a physical only world, you don’t usually have to worry about MAC addresses that much as each NIC vendor carves off a MAC address from their ranges which have been allocated to them. However, in a virtual environment, you have to be a little more careful...

Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 Although I thought I’d finished at part two, after...

Now that the veil of silence has been lifted with the release of Windows Server “8” beta , I’m able to tell you a little more about what I’ve been working on for 5 years now. An inside joke is that it’s a feature with two...

Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 The second part of the extra-long blog post contains...

While it is possible to create some complex networking environments in Hyper-V, the basic concepts are relatively straight forward. This post walks some simple scenarios and how the main components operate in terms of the flow of data. Let’s start...

Happy New Year! I've had quite a few direct emails about this in the last few weeks, so it's probably worth posting as an FAQ. As you probably know, and as I have stated before, Hyper-V (codename "Viridian", and formerly known as Windows Server...

In May , I mentioned that we introduced a checkbox in the Hyper-V UI for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 which determines whether a virtual NIC is created in the parent partition for External Virtual Networks. (To get a better understanding of Hyper...

Over the break I’ve been taking over Christmas, one of my goals was to move the remainder of my Virtual Server “production” VMs across to Hyper-V. But when nearing completion, I noticed that Server Manager was reporting a role error:
Looking at...

A quick post to announce the availability of a new utility written by a colleague of mine in the Hyper-V team, Keith Mange. NVSPBind (Network Virtual Service Provider Bind) overcomes a shortfall that many people hit in server core installations of Windows...

I've rippled through quite a few nagging problems since my server failure at home a few weeks ago. One of the more intriguing problem I only noticed a couple of days ago. One server had not been running scheduled Shadow Copies. When you schedule shadow...

This post examines a problem several people have reported when running Hyper-V Remote Management tools over a VPN connection - specifically hitting an error “Access denied. Unable to establish communication between ‘SERVER’ and...